When the World Cup, co-hosted by Korea and Japan, wraps up at the end of this month, live sports coverage may never be the same. The World Cup was a test bed for the formal launch of 3G services in South Korea. Wireless videophones captured soccer fans waving to viewers around the world in mobile [...]
Fujitsu gave a preview of it’s Stylistic ST4000 Tablet PC (FAQ) in New York this week. It features a Pentium III- M, integrated IEEE 802.11b, a touchscreen, and Firewire. Tablet PCs should be in stores by November 1st. Fujitsu’s Tablet PC coverts from a laptop to a tablet and can work as a desktop computer [...]
For bridging 2.4 GHz networks, Tim Higgins reports on the new OR-500, Orinoco’s Remote Outdoor Router with an embedded 2.4 GHz radio and a range of up to 10 miles. It features 128-bit encryption, support for routing and Power Over Ethernet (PoE), 802.1x and can provide multi-point connectivity for up to 128 clients. The AP-2000 [...]
War Chalking is a movement to “tag” an area covered by wireless “hot spots”. It’s a cheap, easy way to indicate public wireless 802.11 access using chalk. “Mark-up” curbs, walls or sidewalks – wherever you find wireless access. Blackbelt Jones explains that War Chalking is a pun on “warwalking” – itself derived from wardriving, which [...]
Motorola today announced a 5GHz fixed wireless system called Canopy for residential and small business customers. Motorola’s system uses the unlicensed 5GHz band (at 5.25 & 5.8 GHz) and includes a 6-sector cell, an integrated one-piece customer unit, and a 10Mbps backhaul system that can be used to connect additional “cells” or p-to-p customers up [...]
Ethernet in the First Mile brings Ethernet to the home with 10Mbps-100Mbps fed directly to settops or computers. It may use twisted pair, Cat-5 Ethernet cable or fiber. Narad’s “Virtual Fiber Architecture” offers two options for switched IP services. The first uses the bandwidth from 860 MHz to 1 GHz to derive bidirectional 100 Mbps [...]
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